The impact of technological tools used for online education

The specialization course: Administration of Virtual Environments for The Teaching and Learning of Foreign Languages seeks to specialize in specific areas to students who are enrolled in their graduation process of the three majors offered by the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of El Salvador. The main objective of the specialization is that students of the different majors can be at the vanguard with the latest in terms of tools, applications, and platforms for learning and teaching languages in a virtual way. For this reason, three learning modules were developed, which are divided as follow: Online English Language Teaching, Educational Applications for Learning a Foreign Language, and Design of Didactics Materials for Virtual Environments. The three different modules that were taught in the specialization course have been of great benefit to all undergraduate students as they learned very useful things that can be taken advantage of today in virtual teaching. Some examples of what they have learned are learning tools such as Google Classroom, Google Meet, Padlet, Powtoon, Kahoot, Liveworksheet, Nearpod, etc. Also, learning management systems such as Edmodo, Moodle, Schoology, Microsoft teams, etc. Participants also learned some audio, video, and pictures editing tools such as Audacity, Openshot, and Genially. In this report it is presented in greater depth all that was learned during the three modules of the specialization course as well as the achievements, conclusions, and recommendations. Keywords: Virtual Environment ; Virtual Teaching ; Specialization Course ; Learning Tools ; Educational Applications ; LMS